If you have been reading this blog for a while you will know that washing machines are my favourite appliances - I could travel back in time to anywhere, as long as I had a washing machine! I found this little article full of hints for using and choosing your washing machine - from 1959 (13 May 1959, Australian Women's Weekly).
Anyway, here are some lovely 1959 washers to choose from....I love this red one!
Interesting to see the different ways the machines are advertised. Which one would you have bought?
I think my Grandmother had one just like the Wilkins Servis one pictured, it used to fascinate me as a child watching the mangle squeeze out the water, and I had to stand back to avoid squashed fingers!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't live without a washing machine either.
My grandmothers both loved their mangles - they never gave them up, even when their children insisted they both get new washing machines for mothers day one year! Imagine how many squashed finger there must have been!
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